June 14, 2015

Here's the full video. Will post transcript when I find it. Enjoy:

Hillary Clinton Delivers First 2016 Presidential Campaign Speech [FULL]

Published on Jun 13, 2015

Two months after announcing her presidential candidacy, Hillary Clinton holds the first official rally of her campaign Saturday, on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

At first rally, Hillary Clinton gives rationale for 2016 quest New York (CNN) Hillary Clinton took the stage on New York City's Roosevelt Island Saturday, looking to offer hundreds of supporters her answer to the question that has dogged her presidential campaign through its first two months: Why?

The Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 race used the stirring geography of the narrow island in New York City's East River to make a case for new economic policies designed to benefit the middle class -- and present herself as the candidate to make them happen.

"Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers," Clinton told the crowd. "Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. You brought our country back. Now it's time, your time, to secure the gains and move ahead. And you know what? America can't succeed unless you succeed."

The rally marks Clinton's departure from the low-key and carefully choreographed small roundtable events that she's held in the first states to vote in the presidential nominating contest -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- since announcing her candidacy in April.

RELATED: In kicking off campaign, Hillary to emphasize more Rodham, less Clinton

Supporters began lining up at 6:30 a.m. for a rally that wouldn't begin until four hours later. Media flocked onto the narrow island, with 550 journalists requesting credentials.
And Clinton's aides welcomed the attention, billing the rally as the real launch of her campaign -- and of the case she'll make to voters for the next year and a half.

"This will be a new moment. We have had the spring training, now it is opening day," campaign chairman John Podesta told CNN. "I think, for us, this is an opportunity to lay out really the operating manual for where she wants to take the country."

Clinton's speech was not a detailed rollout of the policies that she'll advance over the course of the campaign. Instead, the former secretary of state previewed a list of critical policy issues while unveiling the specifics of how she'd tackle those issues over the course of the summer.

Saturday's event was also a chance for Clinton to introduce herself to a large media audience. The former first lady is nearly universally known, but aides hope she will be able to present herself in a different, softer light.

"She is a well-known figure but when you're asking the American people to support you as president, even if it is for the second time, there is no skipping of steps," said Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign's communications director. "If you want to understand Hillary Clinton, and what has motivated her career of fighting for kids and families, her mother is a big part of the story."

In that effort, the entire day will focus on Clinton. Although both Bill and Chelsea Clinton attended -- the first time either will appear at a campaign event -- they will not be the focus and are not expected to speak.

Some of Clinton's high-profile supporters flocked to the city for Saturday's rally, too.

Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta, told CNN that he decided to attend the event because he wants to "stand with Secretary Clinton."

"I think that people have really been waiting for this aspect of the campaign to begin," Reed said. "There is an enormous amount of pent up energy to get on with the campaign and go on our and making the case to folks why she should be the 45th president."

But well-known New York Democratic figures weren't treating Clinton as their party's presumptive nominee.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't attend the rally in his own backyard, saying he's waiting for Clinton to present a "larger vision" for tackling income inequality.

RELATED: Hillary Clinton channels Roosevelts in first campaign rally

Republicans, looking to seize on the media attention around Clinton's event, bused supporters north from Washington on Saturday morning, with many leaving at 5:45 a.m. They handed out information about Clinton, including red sunglasses that say "Stop Clinton" and "Shady."

GOP presidential contenders, meanwhile, offered pre-buttals before Clinton even took the stage.

"Hillary Clinton's re-launch of her campaign doesn't change that her views are out-of-touch with mainstream America," Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

The campaign rally was largely organized by Greg Hale, a long-time Clinton aide, who grew up in DeQueen, Arkansas, and met the Clintons when he was young. He started doing advance work for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and is the Clintons' go-to person for staging events like Saturday's.

June 14, 2015

Well, not your posts. Here's one to give you a happy. It did me:

Photos of Billionaires at Hillary’s Rally Today. (image heavy)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026831166

Great pictures of the diversity of the NYC area today. And all the people look happy to me!

June 14, 2015

Sounds good! I love avocadoes. I call them, apples and raw cocoa food of the gods. Pecans are going

out of sight now, though. I prefer them, but they haven't recovered from years of drought killing off orchards.

I don't go for any ot the fancy apples. If you can get fresh harvested red Delicious apples (once a year before they start to refrigerate them for months and they get mealy) you can smell the frangrance of the apple blossoms still on the counter.

It's hard doing meal planning for long time, just have to go with whatever I am given or is super cheap. Just about quit with all of it.

I'm sure the salad was great on a sunny warm day like you guys are having there. Sunny cool days here, very pretty but I'm allergic to everything now. I do count my blessings, anyway. It gives me strength to go on.

Life is good no matter how it goes. Have a real hankering to move because of the cost of housing is getting far too much for me and no end in sight. But When I look at my finances and say, 'Oh, woe is me, this isn't going to work,' I know we need a Democrat in the White House to stop the GOP's nefarious schemes for next year.

Anyone who won't vote Democrat is condemning many to lives of suffering and brutal deaths, but it's easy for them to say, theyr'e unaffected. They are not my allies.

June 14, 2015

I didn't know there was such a thing in real life. I need to get out more! I'd rather have:

Muscadines are great.

June 13, 2015

Sure you don't have a problem with America's largest union-owned bank. HRC has union support.

Some may find that hard to believe, but most unionists I know, in public and private unions, support her. To disrespect her won't be a winning strategy with union members. Many will support Sanders, but he doesn't ever say anything negative about HRC. Nor does she in regards to him. They have been friends for a long time. In 2006:

...Sanders did accept support from national Democrats like Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Barbara Boxer. He also accepted a large donation from Hillary Clinton's Political Action Committee, HILLPAC, which featured him as one of its most important candidates.

http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/610/610_11_BernieSanders.shtml

Bernie is a part of the Democratic Party, mainstream in all respects, including voting for the first AUMF that opened the door to the Iraq War and voting to fund every bill since then. He has supported the trillion dollar expenses of the F-35 as it benefits his home state and provided jobs to fund the famed Burlington, VT. waterfront project.

VT socialists reject Bernie. He's steadfast in his support for defense funding for Israel. None of those are radical positions. I don't know why people (not necessarily you) want to paint him that way. He's a great and powerful candidate for many Democrats as is HRC.

June 13, 2015

And this is the HRC version:

June 13, 2015

Youtube has it now:

Hillary Clinton Delivers First 2016 Presidential Campaign Speech [FULL]

Published on Jun 13, 2015

Two months after announcing her presidential candidacy, Hillary Clinton holds the first official rally of her campaign Saturday, on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

At first rally, Hillary Clinton gives rationale for 2016 quest New York (CNN) Hillary Clinton took the stage on New York City's Roosevelt Island Saturday, looking to offer hundreds of supporters her answer to the question that has dogged her presidential campaign through its first two months: Why?

The Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 race used the stirring geography of the narrow island in New York City's East River to make a case for new economic policies designed to benefit the middle class -- and present herself as the candidate to make them happen.

"Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers," Clinton told the crowd. "Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. You brought our country back. Now it's time, your time, to secure the gains and move ahead. And you know what? America can't succeed unless you succeed."

The rally marks Clinton's departure from the low-key and carefully choreographed small roundtable events that she's held in the first states to vote in the presidential nominating contest -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- since announcing her candidacy in April.

RELATED: In kicking off campaign, Hillary to emphasize more Rodham, less Clinton

Supporters began lining up at 6:30 a.m. for a rally that wouldn't begin until four hours later. Media flocked onto the narrow island, with 550 journalists requesting credentials.
And Clinton's aides welcomed the attention, billing the rally as the real launch of her campaign -- and of the case she'll make to voters for the next year and a half.

"This will be a new moment. We have had the spring training, now it is opening day," campaign chairman John Podesta told CNN. "I think, for us, this is an opportunity to lay out really the operating manual for where she wants to take the country."

Clinton's speech was not a detailed rollout of the policies that she'll advance over the course of the campaign. Instead, the former secretary of state previewed a list of critical policy issues while unveiling the specifics of how she'd tackle those issues over the course of the summer.

Saturday's event was also a chance for Clinton to introduce herself to a large media audience. The former first lady is nearly universally known, but aides hope she will be able to present herself in a different, softer light.

"She is a well-known figure but when you're asking the American people to support you as president, even if it is for the second time, there is no skipping of steps," said Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign's communications director. "If you want to understand Hillary Clinton, and what has motivated her career of fighting for kids and families, her mother is a big part of the story."

In that effort, the entire day will focus on Clinton. Although both Bill and Chelsea Clinton attended -- the first time either will appear at a campaign event -- they will not be the focus and are not expected to speak.

Some of Clinton's high-profile supporters flocked to the city for Saturday's rally, too.

Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta, told CNN that he decided to attend the event because he wants to "stand with Secretary Clinton."

"I think that people have really been waiting for this aspect of the campaign to begin," Reed said. "There is an enormous amount of pent up energy to get on with the campaign and go on our and making the case to folks why she should be the 45th president."

But well-known New York Democratic figures weren't treating Clinton as their party's presumptive nominee.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't attend the rally in his own backyard, saying he's waiting for Clinton to present a "larger vision" for tackling income inequality.

RELATED: Hillary Clinton channels Roosevelts in first campaign rally

Republicans, looking to seize on the media attention around Clinton's event, bused supporters north from Washington on Saturday morning, with many leaving at 5:45 a.m. They handed out information about Clinton, including red sunglasses that say "Stop Clinton" and "Shady."

GOP presidential contenders, meanwhile, offered pre-buttals before Clinton even took the stage.

"Hillary Clinton's re-launch of her campaign doesn't change that her views are out-of-touch with mainstream America," Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

The campaign rally was largely organized by Greg Hale, a long-time Clinton aide, who grew up in DeQueen, Arkansas, and met the Clintons when he was young. He started doing advance work for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and is the Clintons' go-to person for staging events like Saturday's.

June 13, 2015

EDIT: HRC Launch Makes it to Youtube FULL VIDEO:

Hillary Clinton Delivers First 2016 Presidential Campaign Speech [FULL]

Published on Jun 13, 2015

Two months after announcing her presidential candidacy, Hillary Clinton holds the first official rally of her campaign Saturday, on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

At first rally, Hillary Clinton gives rationale for 2016 quest New York (CNN) Hillary Clinton took the stage on New York City's Roosevelt Island Saturday, looking to offer hundreds of supporters her answer to the question that has dogged her presidential campaign through its first two months: Why?

The Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 race used the stirring geography of the narrow island in New York City's East River to make a case for new economic policies designed to benefit the middle class -- and present herself as the candidate to make them happen.

"Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers," Clinton told the crowd. "Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. You brought our country back. Now it's time, your time, to secure the gains and move ahead. And you know what? America can't succeed unless you succeed."

The rally marks Clinton's departure from the low-key and carefully choreographed small roundtable events that she's held in the first states to vote in the presidential nominating contest -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- since announcing her candidacy in April.

RELATED: In kicking off campaign, Hillary to emphasize more Rodham, less Clinton

Supporters began lining up at 6:30 a.m. for a rally that wouldn't begin until four hours later. Media flocked onto the narrow island, with 550 journalists requesting credentials.
And Clinton's aides welcomed the attention, billing the rally as the real launch of her campaign -- and of the case she'll make to voters for the next year and a half.

"This will be a new moment. We have had the spring training, now it is opening day," campaign chairman John Podesta told CNN. "I think, for us, this is an opportunity to lay out really the operating manual for where she wants to take the country."

Clinton's speech was not a detailed rollout of the policies that she'll advance over the course of the campaign. Instead, the former secretary of state previewed a list of critical policy issues while unveiling the specifics of how she'd tackle those issues over the course of the summer.

Saturday's event was also a chance for Clinton to introduce herself to a large media audience. The former first lady is nearly universally known, but aides hope she will be able to present herself in a different, softer light.

"She is a well-known figure but when you're asking the American people to support you as president, even if it is for the second time, there is no skipping of steps," said Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign's communications director. "If you want to understand Hillary Clinton, and what has motivated her career of fighting for kids and families, her mother is a big part of the story."

In that effort, the entire day will focus on Clinton. Although both Bill and Chelsea Clinton attended -- the first time either will appear at a campaign event -- they will not be the focus and are not expected to speak.

Some of Clinton's high-profile supporters flocked to the city for Saturday's rally, too.

Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta, told CNN that he decided to attend the event because he wants to "stand with Secretary Clinton."

"I think that people have really been waiting for this aspect of the campaign to begin," Reed said. "There is an enormous amount of pent up energy to get on with the campaign and go on our and making the case to folks why she should be the 45th president."

But well-known New York Democratic figures weren't treating Clinton as their party's presumptive nominee.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't attend the rally in his own backyard, saying he's waiting for Clinton to present a "larger vision" for tackling income inequality.

RELATED: Hillary Clinton channels Roosevelts in first campaign rally

Republicans, looking to seize on the media attention around Clinton's event, bused supporters north from Washington on Saturday morning, with many leaving at 5:45 a.m. They handed out information about Clinton, including red sunglasses that say "Stop Clinton" and "Shady."

GOP presidential contenders, meanwhile, offered pre-buttals before Clinton even took the stage.

"Hillary Clinton's re-launch of her campaign doesn't change that her views are out-of-touch with mainstream America," Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

The campaign rally was largely organized by Greg Hale, a long-time Clinton aide, who grew up in DeQueen, Arkansas, and met the Clintons when he was young. He started doing advance work for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and is the Clintons' go-to person for staging events like Saturday's.

to Spitfire of ATJ who posted this in VM&M without this description, but I give credit for getting to it first!

http://election.democraticunderground.com/1017271837

June 13, 2015

I don't have a sad, you've been a hoot! But...

June 13, 2015

Yes! And will be watching the livestream, I hope. Your picture reminds of this 1988 BBC show:

"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a Godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

~ Holly, perfectly summing up the series.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RedDwarf